Gracious good morning, boys and girls! The sun will be out today and all week long. Yippee
I'm feeling a whole lot more positive and upbeat than in a long while. I finally decided on which job to keep, and it's the bakery at Kroger. Friday and yesterday were absolute sh!t shows at the biscuit store. Sold-out sh!t shows. Yes. That bad.
First thing Friday morning the oven quit. The huge industrial oven. The same one I've been whining at them about for weeks and weeks. There are two ovens, one for biscuits and one for bacon, and they've been there since the building went up in 1989. The cook and I improvised and shared his bacon oven until the electrician got there at 9 am. NINE! We get started at 4 am to open at 5 am. Trouble with the bacon oven is that it bakes differently than the biscuit oven, so the biscuits looked butt ugly and took forfreakingever to bake.
When we called the manager at 4:30, she called her corporate boss. He said we should find out what parts were needed so he could order them and we should
fix it ourselves in the future. Whaaaaat? It requires a master electrician to fix it, but we should fix it ourselves.
The first guy who came out a few weeks ago said there was nothing wrong with it. It was just that I didn't know how to close the doors properly. Right. He's a "maintenance" person, not an electrician.
The electrician said the oven was blowing its fuses. He finally found the problem, old brittle wires that broke from the motion of the fan inside the oven and blew against metal parts. He made a temporary fix and said he was going to tell corporate that the oven has to be replaced and that we were just lucky that the building hadn't caught fire
Yesterday morning? Same thing. I told them that if he wasn't there by 7 am, I was outta there. He wasn't there by 7. In the meantime, I made as many biscuits as I could, cleaned up, and was on my way home at 8.
Our manager called out sick yesterday. She said 12/14-hour days seven days a week for months finally caught up with her and she was too exhausted to even get out of bed. I left her a note.
Today is going to be a good day!
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I shop all year long. When I see something on sale and think "Holly would like that", I buy it and put it in my Christmas box. So I'm usually done shopping by now, too. It's a good feeling, isn't it?!
